CodeQuality on Marko Apfel

Worth Reading: Why You Should End Your Source Files With a Newline

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 07:58:31 +0100

A small habit — ending every source file with a trailing newline — that quietly avoids a surprising number of diff, tooling, and POSIX-compliance headaches.

ReSharper's 'Apply File Layout' Cleanup Setting, Explained

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:53:45 +0100

Apply File Layout is the ReSharper Code Cleanup setting that keeps every file in a codebase structured the same way — headers, usings, and type members in a predictable order.

ReSharper's 'Arrange Qualifiers' Cleanup Setting, Explained

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:53:45 +0100

Arrange Qualifiers keeps namespace and type qualifiers consistent — stripping them where a using directive already covers it, and adding them back where ambiguity demands it.

ReSharper's 'Sort Modifiers' Cleanup Setting, Explained

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:53:45 +0100

public static readonly, or readonly public static? ReSharper’s Sort Modifiers setting picks one consistent order and applies it everywhere.

ReSharper's Built-in Code Cleanup Profiles, Compared

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:53:45 +0100

Reformat Code, Reformat & Apply Syntax Style, or Full Cleanup — ReSharper’s three built-in profiles differ a lot more than their names suggest.

Local Functions vs. Private Methods in C#: When to Use Which

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 10:04:10 +0200

Local functions and private methods both encapsulate logic within a class, but they answer different questions — one about method-specific scope, the other about class-wide reuse.

The Single-Line If-Statement Debate: Arguments For and Against Braces

Wed, 18 May 2022 20:09:47 +0200

Should if (condition) return; be allowed on one line, or does every if-statement need braces? It’s a smaller question than it looks, and teams genuinely disagree about the answer.